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Marco Rubio RNC speech: 5 best lines

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio introduced GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a speech Thursday night in which he championed American exceptionalism and spoke in glowing terms of the American dream — while also slamming President Barack Obama.

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1. “Now let me be clear, so no one misunderstands. Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father, and thanks to lots of practice, a good golfer. Our problem is not that he’s a bad person. Our problem is he’s a bad president.”

2. “These are tired, and old, big-government ideas that have failed everywhere and every time they’ve been tried. These are ideas that people come to America to get away from.”

3. “Yes, we live in a troubled time. But the story of those who came before us reminds us that America has always been about new beginnings. And Mitt Romney is running for president because he knows, if we are willing to do for our children what our parents did for us, life in America can be better than it has ever been.”

4. “My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a hotel maid and a stock clerk at Kmart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.”

5. “And to make sure America is still a place where tomorrow is always better than yesterday, that is what our politics should be about. And that is what we are deciding this election.”